Yes, Phoenix! Her justification was that it people really wanted to know the truth, they would look at the records for themselves but she wasn't going to encourage the nosey by publishing unfortunate things on line for people to gossip about!I
Just remembered another - a baptism which literally hundreds of people have taken as gospel for this particular gateway ancestor. When I looked at the actual record it was a supplementary page at the back of the register, headed "children born but NOT baptised" - there was a fine for that. Ok, hair splitting I suppose, but it led me to look much later for an adult baptism, which I found in unpublished records two counties away.
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